Newbold Morris
[6] His father, a cousin of the author Edith Wharton, and mother built Brookhurst in Lenox, Massachusetts, on land bought in 1906.[1][17][18] In this role, Morris sought to save the famous Doric columns that adorned the main entrance to Penn Station.[19] While Morris, in this respect, served as one of the few dissenting voices during the early planning of the destruction of the first Pennsylvania Station, widely considered to have been in terms of architectural substance an irreversible and traumatic loss to the city, he ultimately failed at preventing the columns from being slated for their ultimate destruction and discarding in the New Jersey Meadowlands.[23] Some people suspected that local real estate interests were involved, wanting to rid the park of beatniks and other "undesirables," as some called them.[36] Together, they were the parents of: He died on March 30, 1966, in New York City two months after his term as Commissioner ended.[39] Through his son Peter, he was the grandfather of Theodora Winslow Morris, a doctoral candidate at Yeshiva University, who married Jack Francis Marran, who worked for his family's oil distribution company in Patchogue, New York, in 1991.
Augustus Newbold MorrisParks Commissioner of New York CityRobert F. Wagner Jr.Robert MosesThomas HovingNew York City CouncilVincent R. ImpellitteriNew York CityNew YorkRepublicanRichardGeorge MorrisLearned HandYale UniversityGeorge Lovett Kingsland MorrisEdith WhartonLenox, MassachusettsEleanor Colford JonesCaroline Schermerhorn AstorMrs. AstorMorrisaniaGroton SchoolScroll and Key SocietyNew York City Planning CommissionFiorello La GuardiaWest Coasts1938 New York City truckers' strikeCity Center TheaterNew York City OperaNew York City Centerspecial assistant to the Attorney GeneralJ. Howard McGrathDepartment of JusticePresidentHarry TrumanDoric columnsPenn StationNew Jersey Meadowlandsfolk musicWashington Square ParkbeatniksThomas P. F. HovingWilliam Thaw Sr.Mary Sibbet CopleyU.S. Marine CorpsRobert Anson JordanGracie MansionUniversity of PennsylvaniaBarnard CollegeYeshiva UniversityPatchogue, New YorkThe New York TimesThe Berkshire EagleCaro, Robert A.The Power BrokerJonah J. GoldsteinMayor of New York CitySpeakers of the New York City CouncilFornesMitchelGeorge McAnenyDowlingLa GuardiaHulbertCollinsBrunnerImpellitteriHalleyScrevaneO'ConnorGarelikO'DwyerBellamyPublic AdvocateValloneMillerMark-ViveritoJohnsonRepublican Party1898 consolidationBenjamin F. TracySeth LowWilliam Mills Ivins Sr.Otto BannardJohn Purroy MitchelWilliam M. BennettLewis H. PoundsRobert K. ChristenberryLouis LefkowitzJohn LindsayJohn J. MarchiRoy M. GoodmanEd KochRudy GiulianiMichael BloombergJoe LhotaNicole MalliotakisCurtis SliwaSpecial prosecutorsindependent counselsJohn B. HendersonJames BroadheadWhiskey RingStar Route scandalHolmes ConradCharles BonapartePost OfficeFrancis J. HeneyOregon land fraud scandalAtlee PomereneOwen RobertsTeapot Dome scandalArchibald CoxLeon JaworskiHenry S. Ruth Jr.Charles RuffWatergate scandalJordan drug allegationsPaul J. CurranCarter business loansKraft drug allegationsDonovan organized crime allegationsBechtel scandalJames C. McKayOlson perjuryMike Seymour